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March 31, 2006

Oh the humiliation!

Insolent slugs! How dare you not bow and scrape when a congresswoman passes!

The six-term congresswoman [Cynthia McKinney] apparently struck a Capitol Police officer when he tried to stop her from entering a House office building without going through a metal detector. Members of Congress wear identifying lapel pins and routinely are waved into buildings without undergoing security checks. The officer apparently did not recognize McKinney, she said in a statement.

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Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday labeled it "a mistake, an unfortunate lack of recognition of a member of Congress."

Yes, how distressing for McKinney! The degradation! The humiliation of not being recognized! Fortunately McKinney is well connected.